Hair highlighting


Hair highlighting/lowlighting is changing a person's hair color, using lightener or haircolor to lift the level or brightness of hair strands. There are four basic types of highlights: foil highlights, hair painting, frosting, and chunking. Highlights can be any color, as long as it's a lighter level than the surrounding hair. Hair lightened with bleach or permanent color will be permanent until new growth begins to show. Highlighted hair can make the hair appear fuller. Therefore, it is sometimes recommended for people with thin and fine hair. It also a recommended service for achieving better color balance with people that have at least 50% gray, and it also helps to diminish the line of demarcation once the new growth is showing from permanent hair color.

Basic foil highlighting

Foil highlighting is the process of using foil to separate strands of hair which will be lightened from strands of hair which will remain its natural color. The process is done by applying lightener to the hair that has been woven and separated using an applicator brush. The foil is then folded to protect the hair and surrounding area during the "processing" time. This is the amount of time required to achieve the desired results. In highlighting hair, hydrogen peroxide mixed with pigment is used to change the color of the strand. This process is also used in applying "lowlights" to the hair. In this process, hair dyes are used to create strands of hair that are darker than the natural color.

Hair painting

Hair painting is a method of highlighting hair that uses free handed technique to achieve a highlighted effect. Hair painting methods are permanent and employ a hair-painting brush. Foils, plastic wrap, paper, or cotton may be used to separate lightened hair from non lightened hair. While brushes are commonly used in hair painting, one may also use combs to paint or highlight thin-sized strands of hair.
Frosting a process of lightening trends of hair while leaving the adjacent hairs untreated. A highlighting cap may be used with this technique. Hair is pulled through holes in the cap and then that hair is lightened. The effects of this can give the hair a look that is "salt and pepper" with the decent hair left untreated. It will create a stark contrast teen the colors and usually will not look like natural highlights. This is a popular technique for those with shorter hair.

Chunking

Chunking is a style of highlight which is larger and thicker than a traditional highlight, rather than to a method of creating highlights. Chunky highlights are generally offered in a wider variety of bold natural colors, as well as a large number of artificial, or unnatural, colors and are used to create more contrast, rather than subtle texture, as in traditional, thinner highlights.

Safety concerns

It Is recommended that these services be performed by a licensed professional to achieve desired results. It is always important to read all of the manufacture's directions on any chemical applied to the skin or hair.
The FDA bans the use of hair dyes for eyelash and eyebrow tinting or dyeing even in beauty salons.